So Yo'av and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
Psalm 68:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish before the presence of God. American Standard Version (1901) As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Common English Bible Like smoke is driven away, drive them away! Like wax melting before fire, let the wicked perish before God! Catholic Public Domain Version Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. |
So Yo'av and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
The Syrians fled before Yisra'el; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shovakh the captain of their army, so that he died there.
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of the LORD shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.
You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because the LORD did drive them.
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moshe said, Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you.